A root-expressed l-phenylalanine:4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate aminotransferase is required for tropane alkaloid biosynthesis in atropa belladonna

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3745-3762

  Gonzales Vigil, Eliana ^a,d   Góngora Castillo, Elsa ^a   Uebler, Joseph B ^a   Wiegert Rininger, Krystle E ^a   Childs, Kevin L ^a   Hamilton, John P ^a   Vaillancourt, Brieanne ^a   Yeo, Yun Soo ^b   Chappell, Joseph ^b   Della, DeanPenna ^c   Daniel Jones, A ^a,c   Robin Buell, C ^a   Barry, Cornelius S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4-HYDROXYPHENYLPYRUVIC ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; AROMATIC AMINO ACID AMINOTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLPYRUVIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME; TROPANE DERIVATIVE;

ATROPA BELLADONNA; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ATROPA BELLADONNA; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLPYRUVIC ACIDS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSAMINASES; TRANSCRIPTOME; TROPANES;

EID: 84908251359     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.130534     Document Type: Article

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